Affiliate marketing is when an organization will pay commission to an affiliate to promote their products through a website, blog, email, or social media. Affiliates mostly use the same internet marketing methods that regular companies use, such as Search Engine Optimization, Email marketing, social media marketing etc. Affiliate marketing is a very low-risk, low-reward business. Most of the time, all a salesperson needs is a blog or a YouTube channel. To understand affiliate marketing better, let me use an example. As a salesperson, you are interested in selling body creams. Therefore, you begin a skincare blog to attract potential clients. After that, you give them a link to an online retail store like Amazon to buy their skincare products. The Amazon website’s cookies trace the link back to the blog, and the salesperson earns their commission. It has increasingly become […]